About the Authors

Ji-Ah Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Ah Kang, Keimin Lee

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul Republic of Korea

Keimin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Ji-Ah Kang, Keimin Lee

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul Republic of Korea

Kwang Min Lee

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Sukhee Cho

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul Republic of Korea

Jinsoo Seo

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul Republic of Korea

Eun-Mi Hur

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chul-Seung Park

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Ja-Hyun Baik

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Se-Young Choi

sychoi@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAK EMH CSP JHB SYC. Performed the experiments: JAK KL KML SC. Analyzed the data: JAK KL KML CSP JS. Wrote the paper: EMH SYC.